andrew wrote:A QCAD 3 Beta version with the mentioned tool has been released today. Please access your download area to download QCAD 3 Beta. For more details, please refer to:http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad3.html

Excellent news Andrew. Thank you for the advice.

Unfortunately I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 64bit and the advice is that QCAD 3 Beta does not work with this OS version.

Should I look towards changing OS or is there likely to be a resolution within the near future?

Thanks for the really quick response Andrew. I'll have a play using your advice and see how far I get. One last question:-

If I download QCAD 3 beta and install will it over write any QCAD 2.* files or will it make an entirely new file structure so that I can run both?

I'm really enjoying QCAD by the way, it takes me back to a program called DesignCad that unfortunately lost it's way. I wish you every success for the future and would be pleased to make another phi nan tial (I'm trying to get past the spam filter you have) contribution towards the ongoing work if there is a method to do this.

bwallum wrote:If I download QCAD 3 beta and install will it over write any QCAD 2.* files or will it make an entirely new file structure so that I can run both?

They share no files at all, so you can run them both, even simultaneously.

bwallum wrote:I'm really enjoying QCAD by the way, it takes me back to a program called DesignCad that unfortunately lost it's way. I wish you every success for the future and would be pleased to make another phi nan tial (I'm trying to get past the spam filter you have) contribution towards the ongoing work if there is a method to do this.

bwallum wrote:If I download QCAD 3 beta and install will it over write any QCAD 2.* files or will it make an entirely new file structure so that I can run both?

They share no files at all, so you can run them both, even simultaneously.

bwallum wrote:I'm really enjoying QCAD by the way, it takes me back to a program called DesignCad that unfortunately lost it's way. I wish you every success for the future and would be pleased to make another phi nan tial (I'm trying to get past the spam filter you have) contribution towards the ongoing work if there is a method to do this.

and the same to you. QCAD3 beta now running in Ubuntu 11.04 64bit using your work-around. Split entities just what I wanted!

EDIT
Just to follow through I have QCAD beta 3 running in 64bit Ubuntu 11.04. I downloaded and unpacked the linux beta file to my home directory. I'm Bob. The start up script, qcad, therefore sits in the folder /home/bob/qcad-3.0.0-beta-prof-linux

To make it run from a Desktop launcher I created a launcher by right clicking on the Desktop, selecting Create Launcher and where asked for a command I used:

(You need the single quotes in the command). For the icon I chose the new qcad_icon.svg file. I now launch QCAD beta 3 with a single click on the launcher icon. If using Unity with the nice icon column then simply drag your launcher into the launcher icon column.